Alex Android eReader: 2 Screens, 1 Touch

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This may or may not become the Barnes &#38; Noble eReader we&#8217;ve heard so much about, but Spring Design has just announced their dual screen E-book Reader they are calling &#8220;Alex&#8221;. Unfortunately I just don&#8217;t get it. I understand the separate advantages of each of these different screens and I&#8217;m obviously a tad bit [...]

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Sort of like a variation of the Yanko macbook-touch concept and the Microsoft courier ... only with Android. 10" LCD touchscreen on one panel, e-paper (stylus driven) on the other. USB ports (no word on external display though).

It looks to me like the most interesting Android device that's about to come out. And the first true Android netbook/UMPC (unlike the combination Android/Windows one from Acer).